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| Mississippi - Gulf Coast Reeboks is what they call the boots shrimpers wear. You can tell I'm a transplant!
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| Texas - Well dadgumit...translation..darn it
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ELLIE_MAY12
11/27/06 7:39 P
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| Mississippi- I axed her to do that, but she won't...meaning I asked
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| Texas..That's the biggest cotton pickin mess I ever done seen in my life...(nothing to do with cotton)
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ELLIE_MAY12
11/27/06 7:38 P
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| Mississippi- "She all up in the koolaid and don't even know the flavor!"
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ELLIE_MAY12
11/27/06 7:37 P
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| Mississippi- I done been doing that...
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ELLIE_MAY12
11/27/06 7:36 P
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| Mississippi- I'm fixin' to do that.
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MDESAU1701
11/27/06 7:49 A
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Would you like a tonic? (soft drink, soda, pop, Coke)
New England/Boston area
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This one really gets to my husband, who is not from PA.
When the kids have finished something, I ask them, "Are you done that?"
Also, from the old Germans, sometimes I find myself saying things like, "Outen that light."
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over yonder - to point out another location
Arkansas
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ELLIE_MAY12
11/2/06 8:44 P
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| I'm gonna go make groceries....New Orleans
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"What it is?" or "Where you at?" for "hi".
NC/SC
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we say "wicked pissah" if something is really cool. sometimes, anyway.
(boston)
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ELLIE_MAY12
11/2/06 1:24 P
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Works for me!
"Get me a coke." Which if followed by "What kind?" Because down here a coke is any type of soda. Mississippi
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CAOILFHIONN
11/2/06 1:22 P
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| Does 'used to could' count? It means having been able to do something in the past, but no longer. ~Florida (really, not a transplant)
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ELLIE_MAY12
11/2/06 1:20 P
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| Louisiana---"Mash that button." Meaning push that button.
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ELLIE_MAY12
11/2/06 1:19 P
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I have lived in the south for many years now and have still find things that people say here strange and funny.
So lets do a thread on local saying....be sure to tell where you are from or where the saying comes from too.
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